Kidnapped oil worker’s health begins to fail

NIGERIAN kidnappers have said their American hostage is gravely ill and threatened to kill three other foreign oil workers held captive if he died.

A member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, whose month-long campaign against oil installations has driven up world oil prices, said by telephone that the health of oil worker Patrick Landry was failing.

“One of them is sick, badly sick and could give up tonight,” said the man, who identified himself as the ground commander of the movement.